273: Definitely not my bag
Planet Porky
Planet Porky
3.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Topics today include: newspaper delivery times, a pair of important birthdays, why the class of 66 haven't been bestowed with greater honours, Porky's Heysel experience, Shay Given's expensive break up, Liverpool being awarded Eurovision, the Adelphi hotel, Matthew Engel's new book on modern Britain, the dearth of Indian restaurants in Britain nowadays, Chinatown, women going to pubs by themselves, Daryl Hall, the popularity of Michael Jackson and Madonna in the 80s, Sex and the City, pigeon bags, and Ricky Hatton. It's the podcast that always lands the final blow, it's Life on Planet Porky.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, folks, you're all listening the latest chapter, the latest series of adventures on Planet Porky in life on Planet Porky, this podcast with myself, the Portmeister, and of course, the rock chick writer extraordinaire, Mslie and jones i have to say um very early this |
| 0:43.4 | morning i was out and about and i went across the heath to uh my newsagent supplier to pick up my papers |
| 0:51.0 | which uh i do every morning well i don't every morning. Sometimes I haven't sent over, |
| 0:55.8 | but this morning I thought I'm going to go over there. So it was early. It's about quarter to six. |
| 1:01.1 | You have to be very careful these days that you're not hanging around in the paper shop for an hour |
| 1:05.5 | until the papers arrive. When I was a newspaper boy from the age of about 12, I could get to the paper shop. |
| 1:12.2 | It had past five in the morning. |
| 1:13.6 | The papers were there. |
| 1:14.6 | I'd put my round together. |
| 1:17.1 | You know, 25 Laurel Grove is the telegraph, and then 13 Lyme Grove is a mail. |
| 1:23.5 | You have to mark up your round, and then put them in your bag and slip your bag over your shoulder, |
| 1:27.9 | get on your trusty bike and shoot off and deliver the papers. And you could all be done by half six. |
| 1:32.8 | But these days, sometimes the papers don't even arrive until, well, to quarter to seven, seven o'clock, |
| 1:40.1 | you know, and I find that very frustrating. |
| 1:43.8 | You, I have not surprised. |
| 1:45.0 | My mother's papers are delivered between four and half four every morning, |
| 1:49.7 | which I think, yeah, far too early. |
| 1:52.0 | Some guy brings them around in a car because all the local news agents stopped delivering |
| 1:57.5 | and they just shut down the service. |
| 2:00.7 | So they get flown into Biggin Hill Airport in a, stopped delivering. And they just shut down the service. |
| 2:06.6 | So they get flown into Biggin Hill Airport in one of those little private jets. |
| 2:11.6 | And then some guy picks them all up in his car and goes around dropping them all off. |
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